SURPRISE, Ariz. -- What determines whether Rockies trade acquisition TJ Rumfield and No. 70 MLB Pipeline prospect Charlie Condon are ready for Major League debuts? Theoretically, there is a place on the Rockies’ Opening Day roster for right- and left-handed-hitting first basemen. But one of many reasons the Rockies’ fortunes

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Team Israel’s need for a shortstop in the World Baseball Classic could have the domino effect of increasing the Major League appeal of Rockies No. 3 prospect Cole Carrigg. The switch-hitting Carrigg, an athletic second-round pick in the 2023 MLB Draft out of San Diego State, spent

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Rockies shortstop Ezequiel Tovar packed for Sunday’s trip to Miami to join Team Venezuela for the World Baseball Classic, having put behind him a Saturday that defined the worst of Spring Training – a hot and drawn-out 16-3 loss to the Royals. Tovar stayed around for three

DENVER – For Denny Dressman, it started three years ago as a gift from his wife, Melanie. But for the longtime author of 16 books, fate would have this trip from suburban Denver to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City lead to something lasting. Anthony High has earned

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Rockies lefty pitching prospect Griffin Herring welcomed a friendly face. Obtained from the Yankees for former All-Star third baseman Ryan McMahon at last year’s Trade Deadline, Herring, 22, made his first appearance in a Major League Spring Training game Friday, when he yielded an unearned run in

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Scottsdale Stadium has been good to MLB Pipeline No. 70 prospect Charlie Condon, who homered the opposite way to right field in the Rockies’ 11-3 victory over the Giants on Thursday afternoon. Given the ball flight of the shot off Reiver Sanmartin, who will represent Colombia in

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MESA, Ariz. -- Mickey Moniak rattled off his veteran mentors -- Bryce Harper, J.T. Realmuto, Jay Bruce, Kyle Schwarber and Andrew McCutchen when he broke in with the Phillies, high school idol Mike Trout with the Angels. But he was signed by the Rockies just before last season, and had

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies No. 2/MLB Pipeline No. 70 prospect Charlie Condon, having already impressed internally with his willingness to develop multipositional skills, properly introduced himself on Tuesday. Condon launched his first home run of his first Major League camp -- a 449-foot homer at 108.2 mph just left of

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Second baseman Adael Amador began this Spring Training totally blended in with the hopefuls in the Rockies’ clubhouse. Or maybe he was just forgotten. Two camps ago, when Amador was the Rockies’ MLB Pipeline No. 1 prospect, visitors to Rockies camp were eager for his story --

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The rocketed walk-off home run by Rockies’ No. 11 prospect Zac Veen – 113 mph, 468 Statcast-projected feet of left-on-left lightning off Shane Murphy for a 5-4 victory -- went down as the second-most powerful act on Monday afternoon. After breaking from the celebration near the plate,

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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Kyle Karros is proud to be a third baseman at a time when the Rockies are making multipositional players cool. Beyond catcher Hunter Goodman, shortstop Ezequiel Tovar and center fielder Brenton Doyle, there’s the possibility that a cast of infielder-outfielders could rotate among the other spots.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies center fielder Brenton Doyle started Spring Training 2026 with a continuation of his encouraging finish to 2025 -- three hits, including two doubles, and three RBIs in an 11-6 victory over the Diamondbacks on Saturday afternoon.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- MLB Pipeline Top 100 prospect Charlie Condon (COL No. 2/MLB No. 70) checked important boxes for the Rockies even before Saturday, when he made his first career Major League Spring Training start. Condon, 22, selected third overall in the 2024 MLB Draft after a career of record-setting

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies right-handed relief pitcher RJ Petit is in new surroundings, but he’s finding many similarities to his last team. The Rockies selected Petit, the Rockies’ No. 26 prospect, from the Tigers in the Rule 5 Draft during the Winter Meetings. Petit has one of his instructors from

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies infield-outfield prospect Braylen Wimmer appreciated the conversation he had with doctors during a 3 1/2-hour surgery in November to remove a golf ball-sized tumor on the left side of his brain. “It was a lot of baseball, and we were talking about Christmas -- just about

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies senior player development director Chris Forbes has spent more than half of his 53 years fighting cancer with a head-on spirit, meticulous study and -- a quip that mixes realism with optimism. “I guess we’re trying to throw cancer first-pitch breaking balls – which is not

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The new Rockies Spring Training practice schedule has a team segment called T.T.G. (Talking The Game), but that period during Tuesday’s first full-squad workout had way more action. Coaches hit grounders to shortstops and third basemen, only each time the ball was hit three baserunners practice reading

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The Rockies’ Minor League managers and coaching staff were released to the public this week. There was a reason the hiring process extended into the start of Major League workouts.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Rockies’ Kris Bryant can walk but cannot run, which means he is nowhere near playing. Bryant’s injury, diagnosed as chronic lumbar degenerative disk disease, is one of several ailments that have limited him to 170 games, or barely more than one season, in the first four

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Righty Tomoyuki Sugano’s one throwing session before taking off to represent Japan at the World Baseball Classic was a facsimile of what the Rockies want to see when the season starts. Sugano’s four-seam fastball topped out at 91 mph (he averaged 92.7 mph last season with the

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- It didn’t take long for shortstop Ezequiel Tovar to move on from a season to forget -- for himself and for a Rockies team that had the Majors’ worst record at 43-119. “Right from the last game,” Tovar said in Spanish, with Edwin Perez interpreting. “You’ve got

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Each report of a Rockies veteran starting pitching addition has made the road that much tougher for Colorado’s 2025 rookies – who had many (maybe too many) starts last season – to make an early impact in ‘26. Their challenge? They had to look at the breaking